Setting up your own website.

This is a basic guide to set up your personal website.

1. You will need a good WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get) for this I would recommend adobe’s macromedia dreamweaver, this has to be the best WYSIWYG editor I have seen around.

The next program you will need is a photo editor, if your going for a professional look you should get adobe Photoshop CS2 which can be breaking your bank for a small website so I would say look for a open source one which would have to be GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), or if you brought the macromedia studio MX that includes dreamweaver you should of also got fireworks which is another photo editor.

2. Now lets get designing, first off you want to sketch a design you like try and create it as good as you can in your photo editor.

Once you have created your design you want to go ahead and use the slice tool which will break up your image into different pictures, so you need to find your navigator and use your slice tool on that then next find the content area and slice that off.

If you use Photoshop you can now go file save for web, you will have to find something similar in your photo editor if you haven’t got that option.

3. Well we have out basic design once you have saved that; we can open the .html file in dreamweaver and edit what you like you will find it hard to use at first but you will get used to it, so just for a example you can right click and go to page properties. Their you will be able to change the background color, font color etc.
4. So now you know how to make your own website, keep a eye out for information on publishing your website.